Friday, January 9, 2009

Suggestion Box

From time to time I will post a Suggestion Box to open up the forum on how I might improve this site. Be as honest as a Calvinist in a room full of vegetarians. (I don't know what that means...it's just the cadence that appeals to me). If you want to see more characters developed, or more eliminated...or more caption contests and less trivia. If you like things the way they are. Whatever is on your mind, speak it or better yet, type it. I want this blog to succeed like a circuit rider on a Six Flags roller coaster. (...again, makes no sense...just like the pacing). It's still early...I need more coffee...

I have been thinking about this a bit in odd moments when I am hanging up a dishrag. I'm a big fan and actually do keep up with the blog in my reader even when I don't comment (I've been highlighting the text that doesn't show up on the white: it appears in color against the highlight): I don't like to leave anything in your folder unread. I'm also a big fan of Dilbert and wondered what you think about the method in Scott Adam's way of doing things -- he seems likely to have done a lot of research about it, and has made a success of Dilbert online. I get Dilbert's daily strip emailed to me every day: it seems to come in at pretty much the same time daily and I always read it when it comes in. I have things in my reader that I might find more worth reading, but I don't read many of them so regularly because they are often irregular/I never know when they're coming etc; they often come in an overwhelming pile when they do come in; and because I have to go into my reader to access them. (I open my reader every few days, and then only read through a couple of blogs in a session, and often have to leave entries unread). I know there are sites where you can add your blog feed, like Feedburner, that have an option for people to receive things in their email, if someone prefers that. Maybe there is a way to get a regular feed emailed that I don't know about; but I would definitely sign up to get this blog in email format (& I wouldn't for many blogs I try to occasionally read -- I'm content to let a lot of things go unread if it comes to that).

I would think that doing things that way even though it is kind of minimalistic, tends to guard Scott Adams' creativity over the long run as well as the short attention span of dogs and housewives? But that is only a very tentative suggestion as I have *not* put a lot of thought in the cartoon business. I can only speak as a fan of this cartoon and others, and a housewife who doesn't keep up with online things very regularly on my own because of not having a computer day job etc.

But my husband does have a computer day job & is very happy to have several things come in irregularly throughout the day into his reader.

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Corky Velveeta said...

It seems to me a contradiction in terms to say, as some have, that satire need have no moral lesson or didactic purpose, for the essence of satire is aggression or criticism, and criticism has always implied a systematic measure of good and bad. An object is criticized because it falls short of some standard which the critic desires that it should reach. Inseparable from any definition of satire is its corrective purpose, expressed through a critical mode which ridicules or otherwise attacks those conditions needing reformation in the opinion of the satirist. I believe there is no satire without this corrective purpose.

Accordingly, the best definitions of satire should be formulated from a combination of its corrective intent and its literary method of execution. A reasonable definition of satire, then, is "a literary manner which blends a critical attitude with humor and wit to the end that human institutions or humanity may be improved. The true satirist is conscious of the frailty of institutions of man's devising and attempts through laughter not so much to tear them down as to inspire a remodeling"

The best satire does not seek to do harm or damage by its ridicule, unless we speak of damage to the structure of vice, but rather it seeks to create a shock of recognition and to make vice repulsive so that the vice will be expunged from the person or society under attack or from the person or society intended to benefit by the attack (regardless of who is the immediate object of attack); whenever possible this shock of recognition is to be conveyed through laughter or wit: the formula for satire is one of honey and medicine. Far from being simply destructive, satire is implicitly constructive, and the satirists themselves, whom I trust concerning such matters, often depict themselves as such constructive critics.